The Composer's Black Box

Making Music in Cybernetic America

Theodore Gordon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41018-3 (ISBN)

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Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do those new dynamics have for musicality beyond sound? With a focus on five key figures—Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Donald Buchla, Alvin Lucier, and Sun Ra—this book explores how scientific and technological developments in mid-twentieth-century America galvanized musicians to reconfigure their conceptions of sociality, freedom, and the creative self. Theodore Gordon shows how cybernetic thinking in a range of disciplines, from experimental music to jazz and electrical engineering, has shaped musical techniques and technologies and changed what it means to be a composer—or, more broadly, a music-making human—in an increasingly informational world.

Theodore Gordon is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media ; 7
Zusatzinfo	20 b-w figures
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-41018-1 / 0520410181
ISBN-13	978-0-520-41018-3 / 9780520410183
Zustand	Neuware